Abbott v. United States

In an earlier decision in this case, 138 C. Cls. 459, we held that all of the plaintiffs, some 86 in number, pilots employed by the Panama Canal, were “wage board” employees within the meaning of section 203 of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, 59 Stat. 297. Before that decision they had been regarded as not covered by any particular pay statute, and their wages had been fixed by the Governor of the Canal, who in some respects used the standards of compensation applicable to employees of the Government covered by the Classification Act.

*713Classification Act employees, pursuant to section…